WickyNilliams

I'm always astonished when some cash for questions type scandal gets revealed and it turns out they got given like £10k to lobby for some cause. Frighteningly small amount of cash in comparison to the potential impact.

It leads me to wonder what I could get done for myself if I was to drain some savings and send a bung to a politician. But alas, I have scruples

I'd be happy if people threw them in garbage, but I often see them tossed on the street. Sickens me to see

Semi-related: Boko Haram using LLMs for plotting, planning, and preparing for attacks http://archive.today/2026.07.10-132100/https://www.nytimes.c...

No apologies necessary, that's perfectly helpful. Appreciate the response and the candour!

Awesome, thank you! I am starting to do some work building LLM workflows and would like to stand on some giant's shoulders to skip the initial flailing :)

Would it be correct to say you have experience building LLM based workflows like this? I'm guessing so, given by your critiques and suggestions of better approaches. Can you recommend any books/sites/other for learning these kind of dos and donts?

If I worked with horses for 8 hours a day I imagine the answer would be "recently"

The article and your comment reminds me of one of my favourite songs which is a beautiful tribute to the ordinary - even dull - moments that make up life.

The song starts with a man in his deathbed whose life flashes before his eyes. As he is about to pass, he pleads with God to have one last chance to write down his ordinary life from start to end:

  Please! Seeing my life like this
  It made me think
  I could state succinctly everything life is
  If you gave me ink.
  And I could maybe print every speech and thought,
  And release my plot on these streets I’ve walked,
  With a piece of chalk.
  To paint the sharpest image of a heart
  *Cuz as much as art can mimic
  Nothing’s as real as a life told from start to finish*

  People came from everywhere
  They read the story through for days
  It wasn’t nothing new or strange
  Still they were moved and amazed
  *It wasn’t the places he’d been or the people he’d met
  It was the spaces between and the secrets he’d kept.*
  They wept joyfully, for the greatest story no one told
  Was just the story of an ordinary man growing old

The song is "A Story No-One Told" by Shad https://genius.com/Shad-a-story-no-one-told-lyrics

You can find it cheaper if you keep an eye out. My partner just got one for £250 unlocked, no contract

My partner just got a 10a brand new, no contract for £250! Extremely good value.

I am not super studied in nazi symbology. I learnt about this symbol in high school history class btw.

It is not a regular skull and crossbones anymore than the iron cross (which you identify as nazi symbolism) is a regular cross. It's strange to insist on the former, while distinguishing the latter as obviously nazi.

Hmm I don't know. Other comments are suggesting that unless you're well studied in nazi symbolism you'd never know. I think I learnt about this in high school history class. I wonder if there's a European/American divide on this topic (I am European)

I think it is probably useful for people to familiarise themselves with Nazi symbolism though. You would be surprised how often you encounter people online using these obscure symbols, knowing most people won't recognise them.

It's an extremely well known nazi symbol. Probably second behind the swastika itself. There's even that famous "are we the baddies" meme, which uses that symbol as a central pillar of the gag.

Until case law establishes that people are in fact legally responsible for output, then it is just empty platitudes, I fear

Even if you have some AI transcribe in real time, they introduce the kind of subtle mistake - like negating a statement - that is plausible, but undetectable in retrospect without the accompanying audio.

I often review the transcriptions that zoom produces out of curiosity, and this happens constantly. Makes them essentially useless as a statement of record

I've been experimenting with aerospace for the last month. Still not sure if I enjoy the tiling aspect. It can get quite janky on occasions when multiple windows open at once. And it lacks some UI affordances (I'd love if you could make the focused app much more prominent). I might try this more limited approach

I wish macos for more serious about window management, it's extremely limited out of the box.

Could be both? Pay off the previous cohort and it signals to the next that they will get remunerated for their "assistance"

Curious why you categorize lightly cooked as good but high heat as bad? Do you mean deep fried specifically? Or any high heat?

Thank you! I'll take a look

Thanks. I think that's some unaffiliated website btw. While they seem to have provided sources for most of the stats, MAU is not one of them.

Netflix are not putting out manfiestos that read like a monologue from a movie villain, at least

Where is that figure from? I would be extremely surprised if that doesn't drop at least an order of magnitude as the hype wears off. Assuming it's even representative of today and not two months ago

Could you link to the video?

He said in another thread there's 6 people involved. 6 people for this project doesn't feel lean, without even considering the enormous LLM spend/complexity

Not OP, but I've been focusing on linting and automation.

Custom lint rules to encode best practices that previously relied on astute/alert code reviewer to call attention to. This is handy not just for humans but it steers the bots too. Or turning on some existing rule that required a big cleanup/migration to be compliant with. Now I just throw an LLM at it, since they're often laborious but mechanical changes. Which is the sweet spot for an LLM.

Also automating everything I can. That annoying release process that everyone hates but wasn't quite long/arduous enough to justify the time before? It's now automated. GitHub workflows for all the things.

This kind of stuff will forever be useful, even if the bottom drops out and the bubble bursts. And none of it is reliant on AI to run

What is your experience in? The company I work for is constantly hiring

His blog posts are bloviated monstrosities incapable of coherently describing the very trivial ideas contained in them.

That's not true. He coherently and clearly described this crypto pump and dump nonsense he was pushing for a while https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-...

Don't forget: also using his name and the project to pump some speculative crypto nonsense of which he was a beneficiary.

How anybody takes him (or the Ralph Wiggum guy who did the same) seriously after this is beyond me. These people should be exiled

Astro is very nice, but I kinda feel like they are adding a lot of features I don't want and will never need. It's starting to feel too fancy for SSG. My first time using it I encountered 3 separate bugs with their compiler. The fanciness has a price.

Don't suppose you've played in the steamdeck? Curious how well it works there